British police want to question model Kate Moss over drugs

Jan 5, 2006, 7:41 GMT

Top model Kate Moss poses for the July page in the Pirelli 2006 calendar. EPA/MERT ALAS / MARCUS PIGGOT / HO

London - British police have urged supermodel Kate Moss to return to Britain from the United States to answer questions about allegations of drug taking, it was reported Thursday.

The Assistant Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police (Met), Tarique Ghaffur, told the Sun newspaper Thursday that they wanted the 31-year-old top model to 'give her side of the story'.

Moss lost major modelling contracts and checked into a rehabilitation clinic in the U.S. after pictures of her allegedly taking cocaine were published in a British newspaper last September.

A Met Police spokeswoman confirmed that arrest was a possibility. Moss has stayed on in the United States following the revelations and her treatment.

Moss, who has a three-year-old daughter, was recently reported to be on holiday in the ski resort of Aspen, Colorado, with a 20-year-old British student and male model.

Ghaffur told the Sun: 'The investigation is progressing well and the Met is closing in on those who are behind the supply of drugs.

'But we have got to speak to Kate. I am making an appeal for Kate to come back to this country,' he said.

He added: 'If she does, we will seek to see her by appointment. We will arrest her and interview her under caution.'

He said there were no plans to seek her extradition from the U.S., where Moss is reportedly working and planning to live.

'I have no intention at all of sending officers to the USA or seeking her extradition,' Ghaffur said.